Province du Hainaut, Wallonia, BENo archive yet
Nobody has opened a page for Dottignies yet. Its old photographs are probably in a drawer somewhere, or a box of postcards nobody has opened in years. This is where they could go.
Open its archiveYou would look after it: see what people add before it appears. You can hand it on to someone else later.
Not ready to take it on? Hear when someone opens Dottignies's archive.
It takes a minute. You become its first keeper and can ask others to help.
A scan, or a photograph of the print taken with your phone. Old postcards count.
Neighbours and families who left Dottignies name the faces, the shops and the years.
Send it on
A local history society, the mairie, the neighbour everyone asks about the old days. Make a link to this page and send it to them.
An archive grows best one valley at a time. Photographs of one town often show the next.